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Activities

Updated over 3 months ago

Module:

This feature is included in goTom Publisher.

Role:

The user needs a corresponding role to create activities.

Where to find:

Activities can be created in the following locations:

  • Customers

  • Leads and Contacts

  • Opportunities

  • Campaigns

  • Deals

  • Publisher contracts (only with goTom Marketer and goTom Marketer Light)

Functionality:

Communication with clients can be recorded in the activities. The activities are always linked to a data record in goTom, for example a campaign. These activities are available:

  • Task (learn more about CRM tasks)

    • Additionally with due date and date for e-mail reminder

    • Activity tasks can be marked as "completed"

  • Email

  • Lunch

    • Additionally with a field for the location

  • Meeting

    • Additionally with a field for the location

  • Phone call

  • Video call

  • Note

Topic of an activity

A topic must be assigned to each activity. Depending on the location where an activity is created, different topics are available.

Lead/Contact
Customer

Opportunity

Campaign

Deal-Group

Publisher contract

Customer acquisition

Customer care

Other

Negotiation

Approved

Negotiation

Offer

Other

Qualification

Rejected

Billing

Cancellation (rejected)

Offer

Approval

Monitoring

Complaint

Reporting

Reservation

Screenshots

Other

Advertising material

Deal Sheet

Monitoring

New Deal Group

Other

Payout

Other

Negotiations

Participants of an activity

External participants in an activity are contact persons who, for example, are stored in a campaign as a contact with the customer, agent or agency.

Internal participants in an activity are internal users. An internal participant can be sales or campaign management.

Attachments

Up to three documents and a maximum of three links can be attached per activity.

Filter option "Activity relation"

With the relation of an activity, you can also display the activities from other objects that are related to the object you are on. By default, the object on which you currently are is set.

Example: In the activity view of a contact person, you can use the "Customer" relation to display all activities of the associated customer. You can also enter the contact person in the "External participants" filter to display all activities of this contact person in connection with activities on the customer.

In the activity view of a customer, for example, you can filter for activities in connection with campaigns in which the customer is assigned.

Automatically generated email activities by goTom

When an email is sent out of goTom, we automatically save this as an activity for the corresponding object (e.g. campaign, contact person, etc.).

  • Reminder email for birthdays of contacts

    • are always sent and saved as an activity in the language of the goTom user

  • Emails sent from screenshot tasks

    • are always sent and saved as an activity in four languages (german, english, french, italian)

  • Emails sent from reporting tasks

    • are always sent and saved as an activity in four languages (german, english, french, italian)

  • Ad material reminders sent from ad management tasks

    • are always saved as an activity in the language of the instance, but can be sent in different languages depending on the settings in the customer/contact

  • Invoices sent from financial tasks

    • are always sent and saved as an activity in four languages (german, english, french, italian)

  • Payout statements sent from publisher payout tasks

    • are always sent and saved as an activity in the language defined in the publisher contract

Note: Automatically generated activities from emails cannot be modified. However, a "creator" - the person (goTom user) who triggered the dispatch - can delete the activity completely. The automatic creation of emails as activities cannot be deactivated.

Capture emails in goTom when sending them

Activities of the type email can be logged in goTom directly by using a bcc address when sending the email from your email software. The procedure is as follows:

For Leads, Contacts, Customers, Campaigns and Deals

  1. Open the goTom data record for which you want to capture the email

  2. Click on the copy symbol next to "Last activity" in the header bar

  3. Paste the copied email address into the mail software as a bcc recipient and send the message

For Publisher Contracts

  1. Open the activities on the publisher contract for which you want to capture the email

  2. Click on "Add task or activity"

  3. Select the type "Email"

  4. Copy the email address generated by goTom, insert it as a bcc recipient in the email software and send the message

  5. Close the dialogue in goTom (do not click on "Next")

Important:

  • The sending email address must be set in the users goTom account.

  • You can also create a user with a generic email address (e.g. support@gotom.io) in order to send emails to goTom from this address.

  • The email address generated by goTom relates to a specific data record (e.g. a specific customer or a specific campaign) and cannot be reused for other data records.

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